...but every time this morning that I tried to search for a NY Subway directory to try to see how close the two stations are to each other (sorry, I don't know New York at all), all of the google links come up:

The 16 crew members of HMS Bounty tried to get to covered life-rafts but three of them were washed overboard in the process. One of the three people made it to the life-raft and was among the 14 people hoisted onto helicopters and taken to shore.